wintogreen wrote:Thanks, bozz. (Btw, I was freaked out momentarily when I tried replying to your post a few minutes ago only to find that it had disappeared -- while you edited and reposted, apparently!)
Taking out "max-" does make it taller, but what I was hoping is that I could use "max-height" to make the box stop growing at around 150px but remain small/short otherwise. In other words, only grow in height when needed. Weird that it doesn't do this.
You ought to have your own forum for these chrome tweaks. We could call it "Da Krome King" forum.
I've found that "max-height" works with #attachmentList (the box inside #attachmentView), but it doesn't want to scroll. Hmm, I also can't even change the #attachmentList border color. Odd...
EDIT: Messing around a bit more here, I see that "overflow: auto" for #attachmentView does produce a vertical scrollbar when used with the Charamel theme, but it doesn't for me with Qute, which is the theme I was using in the above posts. Border color for #attachmentList also works for me with Charamel but not Qute. Unfortunately "max-height" and "overflow" don't work well together using Charamel either. I give up.
Aha, that -moz-appearance did the trick. (I was talking about background color for #attachmentList rather than #attachmentView, but that works now also.) The max-height setting still doesn't work for me, but I'm happy with the present solution. Thanks very much for your persistence.
I'm having the same problem with the attachments being displayed so you can't read the message. I'm using thunderbird 1.0.2 for mac OS X. Does anyone know how to fix this so I can display HTML email, the windows "fix" doesn't work for a mac.
I have followed the instructions re: creating a userChrome.css file in a chrome directory, in profile, in defaults, in Mozilla Thunderbird, in Program Files directory. However, there was no change in the size of the Attachments pane. Please help.
Thanks Wintogreen,
I tried several variations of the userChrome.css file in the directories indicated at the site you offered, but alas no change. I wonder if my file patched together from suggestions in this and related threads is correctly composed. My last version tried was:
Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); set default namespace to XUL */
Some possible accessibility enhancements:
Attachment pane at bottom of message window
#attachmentView
-moz-appearance: none !important;
height: 20px !important;
overflow: auto !important; }
Make all the default font sizes 20 pt:
font-size: 20pt !important
Make menu items in particular 15 pt instead of the default size:
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